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Christian Griebler

Christian Griebler

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
51
Citations
9549
World Ranking
4745
National Ranking
42

Overview

Christian Griebler is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant activity within subfields such as Ecology, Molecular Biology, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Chemistry, and Paleontology.

Their work covers a range of main topics, including Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Subterranean Biodiversity and Taxonomy, Karst Systems and Hydrogeology, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Protist Diversity and Phylogeny, and Groundwater Flow and Contamination Studies.

Griebler has contributed to multiple recent papers, including:

  • "Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology," 2020, published in Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "Reviews and syntheses: Heterotrophic fixation of inorganic carbon - significant but invisible flux in environmental carbon cycling," 2021, published in Biogeosciences
  • "Towards evidence-based conservation of subterranean ecosystems," 2022, published in Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem," 2023, published in Global Change Biology
  • "Global groundwater warming due to climate change," 2024, published in Nature Geoscience

Frequent co-authors in Griebler's research network include Clemens Karwautz, Stefano Mammola, Maja Zagmajster, Cene Fišer, and Tiziana Di Lorenzo.

They have published extensively in several scientific venues, notably Water Research, The Science of The Total Environment, Scientific Reports, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, and ARPHA Conference Abstracts.

Christian Griebler has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Elsevier BV in 2023 called Groundwater Ecology and Evolution.

Best Publications

  • Microbial biodiversity in groundwater ecosystems

    C. Griebler;T. Lueders

  • Stable isotope fractionation analysis as a tool to monitor biodegradation in contaminated acquifers.

    Rainer U. Meckenstock;Barbara Morasch;Christian Griebler;Hans H. Richnow

  • Groundwater ecosystem services: a review

    Christian Griebler;Maria Avramov

  • Present state and future prospects for groundwater ecosystems

    Dan L. Danielopol;Christian Griebler;Amara Gunatilaka;Jos Notenboom

  • Biodegradation: Updating the Concepts of Control for Microbial Cleanup in Contaminated Aquifers

    Rainer U. Meckenstock;Martin Elsner;Christian Griebler;Tillmann Lueders

  • Combined application of stable carbon isotope analysis and specific metabolites determination for assessing in situ degradation of aromatic hydrocarbons in a tar oil-contaminated aquifer

    Christian Griebler;Michael Safinowski;Andrea Vieth;Hans H Richnow

  • Scientists' Warning on the Conservation of Subterranean Ecosystems

    Stefano Mammola;Pedro Cardoso;David C Culver;Louis Deharveng

  • Anaerobic degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

    Rainer U Meckenstock;Michael Safinowski;Christian Griebler

  • Depth-resolved quantification of anaerobic toluene degraders and aquifer microbial community patterns in distinct redox zones of a tar oil contaminant plume

    Christian Winderl;Bettina Anneser;Christian Griebler;Rainer U. Meckenstock

  • Distribution patterns of attached and suspended bacteria in pristine and contaminated shallow aquifers studied with an in situ sediment exposure microcosm

    Christian Griebler;Birgit Mindl;Doris Slezak;Margot Geiger-Kaiser

  • Effects of thermal energy discharge on shallow groundwater ecosystems

    Heike Brielmann;Christian Griebler;Susanne I. Schmidt;Rainer Michel

  • High-resolution monitoring of biogeochemical gradients in a tar oil-contaminated aquifer

    Bettina Anneser;Florian Einsiedl;Rainer U. Meckenstock;Lars Richters

  • Current developments in groundwater ecology -- from biodiversity to ecosystem function and services

    Christian Griebler;Florian Malard;Tristan Lefébure

  • First attempts towards an integrative concept for the ecological assessment of groundwater ecosystems

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  • Spatio-temporal patterns of microbial communities in a hydrologically dynamic pristine aquifer

    Yuxiang Zhou;Claudia Kellermann;Christian Griebler

  • Long-distance electron transfer by cable bacteria in aquifer sediments.

    Hubert Müller;Julian Bosch;Christian Griebler;Lars Riis Damgaard

  • Enhanced biodegradation by hydraulic heterogeneities in petroleum hydrocarbon plumes

    Robert D. Bauer;Massimo Rolle;Sebastian Bauer;Christina Eberhardt

  • Mixing-controlled biodegradation in a toluene plume--results from two-dimensional laboratory experiments.

    Robert D. Bauer;Piotr Maloszewski;Yanchun Zhang;Rainer U. Meckenstock

  • The potential use of fauna and bacteria as ecological indicators for the assessment of groundwater quality

    Heide Stein;Claudia Kellermann;Susanne I. Schmidt;Heike Brielmann

  • Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology

    Stefano Mammola;Stefano Mammola;Isabel R Amorim;Maria E Bichuette;Paulo A V Borges

  • Biogeochemical and Isotopic Gradients in a BTEX/PAH Contaminant Plume: Model-Based Interpretation of a High-Resolution Field Data Set

    Henning Prommer;Bettina Anneser;Massimo Rolle;Florian Einsiedl

  • Ecological assessment of groundwater ecosystems – Vision or illusion?

    Christian Griebler;Heide Stein;Claudia Kellermann;Sven Berkhoff

Frequent Co-Authors

Rainer U. Meckenstock
Rainer U. Meckenstock University of Duisburg-Essen
Tillmann Lueders
Tillmann Lueders University of Bayreuth
Martin Elsner
Martin Elsner Technical University of Munich
Massimo Rolle
Massimo Rolle Technical University of Darmstadt
Olaf A. Cirpka
Olaf A. Cirpka University of Tübingen
Peter Grathwohl
Peter Grathwohl University of Tübingen
Steven J. B. Cooper
Steven J. B. Cooper University of Adelaide
William F. Humphreys
William F. Humphreys Australian Museum
Christine Stumpp
Christine Stumpp BOKU University
Piotr Maloszewski
Piotr Maloszewski AGH University of Science and Technology

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